U.S. EXPERTS ON SOVIET FIND KHRUSHCHEV MEMOIRS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300180017-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: January 21, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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Soviet Soviet Union concluded in a anticipated in the session, at em in Life magazine before tions had been -excised, L_ \A.
'hie?ting here .last week that which Ray S. Cline, director oP Lhev were published in boats perhaps to protect ".tvtr _ ~.
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of formcr.Nikita S. Khrushchev of Intelligence and Research, on the origin of the material. They believe that the manu-
were' authentic and that they presided. ? The book, titled "Khrushchev script was compiled from a
hada been released to the West The meeting was designed Remembers," was published number of sources, .includingi
without the . approval- of the to establish what conclusions Dec, 21 by Little, Brown and speeches and tape-recorded rec-
present Soviet leadership. could ` be drawn from the Co. ollections, and pasted together
'The unpublicized meeting memoirs about Soviet policy The panel of experts can- before it reached the West, But
convened at the State Depart- and policy-makers. Another eluded that most,.- if not all, they remain, in the words of
ncrit, as attended 'by Soviet goal was to coordinate what of the published material was one participant, "very much in
area specialists fromthe de one participant described as the in the words of the Soviet the dark" about how and why
partri\ent, .the Central . Intelli available bits and pieces of leader although some-of it ap- the material reached'Tinte, Inc.
gcitceAgency and other Gov- rumor and gossip" that have pears to have been doctore;i
The conclusion that the doc-
ument reached the West with-
out the authorization of the
present Soviet leadership is
based on the anti-Stalinist tone
of the memoirs- One partici-
pant described them as "an
echo of the secret speech" Mr.
Khrushchev delivered before a
Soviet party congress in 1956.
Terror Now Minimized
The anti-Stalinist tone is out.
,of step with the current policy)
of giving credit to Stalin for
his wartime leadership and
playing down his rule of terror.
The conflict With current po.
)icy is $o great, in the opiniole
of the. experts,-that the memoirs
could not have received the en-
dorsement of the present party
chief,, Leonid I. Rrezhnev, who
is closely identified with the
partial rehabilitation of Staling
I .. The specialists tend to doubt
the theory that the memoirs-
were passed to the West under
the sponsorship of a ranking
Soviet official and the secret
police in an effort to embarrass
the 'leadership.. No agreement
on an alternate theory, was
reached at the meeting, - -
The inchision of other damag?
ing material, such as the ad-:
mission that the Soviet Unioia
attacked Finland in 1939 and'
that North Korea attacked.
South Korea in.1950, bolstered .
the experts' conclusion that the.
leadership had not intended the
manuscript to be published in
the form it was.
? Although no definite plans,
have been set, a second meet-
ing of the experts may be called
after the material, for the first
is digested and further re-
'each is done by Government
agencies.
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